Allegro CL 9.0 should be ready for Beta testing early April,
2012. The major new feature in Allegro CL 9.0 is Symmetric
MultiProcessing (SMP). This allows separate Lisp threads to run on
separate hardware processors, potentially significantly reducing
execution time on multiprocessor machines. SMP is available on the
Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. It is not available on FreeBSD and
Solaris platforms. All platforms do have non-SMP versions of Allegro
CL 9.0.beta. Common Graphics, the IDE, and CLIM are only available on
the non-SMP versions of Allegro CL 9.0.

Users should be aware that programs which ran correctly in a
non-SMP Lisp may produce incorrect results in an SMP Lisp unless
issues like separate processes both modifying the value of the same
variable are handled correctly. (Wrapping code with the
without-interrupts macro protected variables from being modified by
two processes at once in a non-SMP Lisp but this does not work in an
SMP Lisp.) Although release 8.2 did not support SMP, operators
designed to assist in SMP programming were implemented. This issue and
the operators are discussed in the 8.2 version of smp.htm. That
document (and its 9.0.beta update which will be available when
9.0.beta is released) is a good starting place for users interested in
trying the SMP Lisp.

There are also numerous other enhancements in
9.0.beta. Users interested in becoming beta testers should contact sales@franz.com for more
information.

Despite Solr's many capabilities the product does not include the
ability to perform semantic search in your files. For example, it does
not let you perform queries or reasoning over the objects that are
discovered in a document via Entity Extraction. For that you need to
marry Solr with an RDF Database to create intelligent text
documents. Several of our SemTech customer projects have found this
augmentation of Solr with RDF to be a key feature for creating unique
capabilities within their product offering.

In our webcast we'll show you some demos of applications that use
Solr and an RDF Database to reason over text objects. We'll also
provide a short tutorial on how to keep Solr in sync with the RDF
Database.

As part of Project Halo, Vulcan Inc.'s staged, long-range research
effort towards the development of a "Digital Aristotle", SRI has
developed AURA to allow subject matter experts (SMEs), for example,
biologists, physicists, and chemists, and scientific educators to
formulate knowledge and questions to query that knowledge, with an
ever-decreasing reliance on knowledge engineers. As part of this
effort, SRI have developed "Inquire: A Textbook with Knowledge
Representation and Reasoning".

The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for
the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design,
implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired
dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP,
Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, and so on. We
encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The Association of Lisp Users is pleased to announce the 2012
International Lisp Conference will be held in Kyoto, Japan at
Miyakomesse from October 21st to 24th, 2012.

This year's program consists of tutorials at beginners' and advanced
levels, prominent invited speakers from the Lisp communities, an
excellent technical session, tours of Jidai-Matsuri: festival enjoyed
by people of all ages, participating in its historical reenactment
parade dressed in authentic costumes representing various periods, and
characters in Japanese feudal history.

This new book is intended to be a practical guide for using RDF data in information processing, linked data, and semantic web applications using both the AllegroGraph commercial product and the Sesame open source project.

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instructor.

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